Jason Reitman completed his guest programming at the New Beverly Cinema with a screening of Wes Anderson’s directorial debut, “Bottle Rocket.” This film also marked the screen the debuts of Luke and Owen Wilson, the latter who co-wrote the screenplay with Anderson. Before seeing this movie, Jason admitted that he was actually scared of becoming a filmmaker, especially since he was the son of a famous one (Ivan Reitman). He of course saw all the great movies of the 90’s like “Clerks,” “Slacker,” and he checked out all of Quentin Tarantino’s movies. But he said that none of those movies had the same effect on him as “Bottle Rocket” did. For Jason, this was the movie that made him want to direct films, and of discovering Wes Anderson he said:


“This is the voice that I am going to follow forever.”



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